privacy on desktops

[Wislu Plethora]

>-----Original Message-----
>If as you say they are all administrators and you have
>not PASSWORD Protected the individual files. Not very.
>
>It is possible to "take ownership" of any folder as an
>administrator and then access any files within that
>folder.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Just when I think I know what I am doing....We have
>three
>>user desktops on our home pc, all set as
>administrators.
>>One my teen uses, one is our family desktop, and one I
>use
>>for highly confidential and private word documents. I
>>passworded my private desktop so no one could open it
>and
>>thought that meant that no one else could get into my
>>private stuff. Imagine my absolute horror when I opened
>>the My Computer folder on the family desktop and found a
>>folder of all my documents inside. I about fainted.
>Then
>>I opened the c drive folder and found another set of my
>>documents. I figured out how to make them private so
>now
>>when one tries to access them from the family desktop My
>>Computer folder access is denied.
>>OK, so what else don't I know? My teen is very computer
>>savvy, how secure are my private documents?
>>.
>>

Don't worry, Ann--your documents are safe with me.